Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible… — Francine Prose
Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at… — Russell Means
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up… — C.S. Lewis
He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back. — Sarah Dessen
No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other… — Sarah Dessen
If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is… — Stephen King
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen… — Cornelia Funke
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it… — Roberto Bolano
How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her? — Steve Martin
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin… — Kathleen Norris
Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up… — Sarah Vowell
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon… — Claudia Gray
She kept watching the words. — Markus Zusak
Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening. — Chuck Palahniuk
The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"… — Roald Dahl
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know. — Daniel Handler
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so… — Lionel Shriver
Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept… — Nora Roberts
Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after… — Brandon Sanderson
The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The… — Theodore Roethke
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. — H.G. Wells
There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a… — J R Ward
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the… — P.G. Wodehouse
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon… — John Green

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